Property Tax in Kosciusko County, Indiana

What the Kosciusko County numbers mean

The median is the midpoint of the county's actual bills: half of Kosciusko County homeowners pay more than $1,198 a year and half pay less. The exact bill for any one home depends on its assessed value, exemptions, and which school, municipal and special districts cover it.

Set against the median home value of $200,300, the median bill works out to a derived effective rate of 0.60%. That rate is an estimate computed from the two medians — no county publishes a rate calculated this way — but it adjusts for home prices, which makes comparisons between counties more meaningful.

The key figures for Kosciusko County

For context, the Indiana medians are $1,496 of tax on $201,600 of value, and the US medians are $2,969 on $303,400. *Derived figures are estimates from Census medians, not official rates.

Kosciusko County at a glance

• Median tax rank in Indiana: #34 of 92 counties
• Median home value rank in Indiana: #28 of 92
• Population rank in Indiana: #22 of 92 (80,357 residents)
• Population density rank: #28 of 92 (151 people per square mile)
• Land area rank in Indiana: #5 of 92 (531 sq mi, 1.5% of the combined county land area)
• Median tax as a monthly figure: $100; per $1,000 of home value: $0.60

How Kosciusko County compares

The median tax bill in Kosciusko County is about 20% lower than the state median ($1,496 for Indiana) and about 60% lower than the US median ($2,969 nationally). By median taxes paid, the county ranks #34 out of 92 Indiana counties with published Census data — 33 counties in the state have a higher median bill.

Comparisons cut both ways: a county can have a modest rate but high bills because homes are expensive, or a high rate but modest bills because homes are cheaper. Kosciusko County's derived rate of 0.60% sits below the derived US figure of 0.98%.

Some extra context for Kosciusko County: the median bill works out to about $100 a month, and the derived rate equals roughly $598 of tax per $100,000 of home value. The county is home to 80,357 people — the #22 most populous county in Indiana, spread over 531 square miles, a density of about 151 people per square mile. Its median home value, $200,300, ranks #28 among the state's 92 counties with data.

Nationally, Kosciusko County's median bill of $1,198 ranks #2105 of 3133 counties with published data — inside the top 67% of counties by tax paid. The county accounts for about 1.2% of Indiana's population, its median home value is about 1% below the state median, and at the derived rate the median home would hand over roughly 5.98% of its value in tax across a decade. Within the state, the distance from Kosciusko County to the most expensive county, Hamilton County ($3,340), is $2,142 a year.

Counties nearest Kosciusko County in the Indiana ranking

Kosciusko County and its population peers

Counties of a similar size can tax very differently. The table below shows the counties closest to Kosciusko County in population across the United States, with their median bills and home values. Within the group of 9, Kosciusko County ($1,198) ranks #7 of 9 by median tax paid.

The closest population match is Bedford County, Virginia (80,254 residents), where the median real estate tax paid is $1,265 on a median home value of $276,600 — $67 less than Kosciusko County pays.

Inside Indiana itself, the counties closest to Kosciusko County in population are Hancock County (82,013 residents, median tax $1,756 on a median value of $258,100); Floyd County (80,512 residents, median tax $1,656 on a median value of $235,100); Boone County (72,827 residents, median tax $2,725 on a median value of $341,800); Morgan County (72,202 residents, median tax $1,056 on a median value of $220,100). Same state, same broad tax framework — yet the median bills still differ, because assessed values and the mix of county, municipal and school-district rates are set locally.

How the tax is worked out

Think of the final bill as three ingredients: the assessed value of the property, the exemptions subtracted from it, and the combined rate of every district the property sits in. Kosciusko County's medians imply a derived rate of 0.60%; applied illustratively, a $400,000 home would owe about $2,392 a year, or around $199 a month spread evenly. Individual properties depart from the illustration in both directions.

Illustrative bills in Kosciusko County at the derived rate

The derived rate of 0.60% is only an estimate built from medians, but applying it to different home values gives a sense of scale for Kosciusko County — and a quick way to compare with the state derived rate of 0.74% and the US figure of 0.98%:

Illustration only: real bills are computed from the assessed value, exemptions, and the combined rates of the property's actual taxing districts.

Checking your assessment in Kosciusko County

If your bill looks wrong, work through these steps:

1. Get your property record card from the assessor and check the basics — living area, lot size, bedrooms, condition, and any exemptions you should have.
2. Compare your assessed value with recent sale prices of similar homes in Kosciusko County.
3. Talk to the assessor's office informally first; clear errors are often fixed without a hearing.
4. If needed, file a formal appeal with the local review board before the deadline on your assessment notice, with your evidence attached.
5. Keep paying the bill as issued while the appeal runs, unless your notice says otherwise — unpaid taxes accrue penalties regardless of an appeal.

More Indiana counties

• Floyd County, IN — $1,656
• Hancock County, IN — $1,756
• Bartholomew County, IN — $1,597
• Howard County, IN — $1,110
• Boone County, IN — $2,725
• Morgan County, IN — $1,056

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